Thursday, 3 April 2014

A couple of things

Well, here's a thing. I actually agree with these MPs about the BBC's coverage of 'climate change' - the Corporation should indeed distinguish more carefully between opinions and scientific fact - but I reach, you will not be surprised to learn, the opposite conclusion: that the BBC's failure to do so has resulted in a relentlessly pro-warmist agenda. This is the same BBC that decided its 'line' on such matters as the result of a high-level closed meeting at which they were assured the 'the science is settled' - by a group consisting overwhelmingly of lobbyists and activists, with barely a scientist, let alone a climate scientist, in sight. They were curiously reluctant to reveal this at the time... Enough of that. I recently remarked on the sheer weirdness of our political elite. I was reminded of it again watching clips of the great Nigel Farage-Nick Clegg ding-dong. Clegg, once described by David Cameron (before the enforced love-in) as his 'favourite political joke', retains his mysterious inability to find a suit that appears to fit him. He lives on planet Euro, which is - well, just weird. As for Farage, you might hope that a man who has so far lived outside the political mainstream might be less weird than the rest - but if anything he's even weirder. He has the face of an amphibian and gapes and blinks like one, he stands at all times in the posture of a man in a saloon bar, pint in hand, holding forth. At least he's recognisably human - but the kind of human you'd instinctively edge away from if you came across him, say in the saloon bar. And he wears blazers. Enough said.

About Me

Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene.